Posts by mikemol@pony.social
(DIR) Post #ASqr4PbnRpmf66SXhI by mikemol@pony.social
2023-02-19T22:40:00Z
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@mjg59 @taviso @corsac Chrome's built-in one syncs with Android, if you permit it. I quite like it.(full disclosure, I work for Google, my opinions are my own, etc.)
(DIR) Post #ASskZLaE9YYuE9RuD2 by mikemol@pony.social
2023-02-20T20:02:20Z
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@jwz To paraphrase Arthur C. Clark, any sufficiently advanced computational technology is "AI".
(DIR) Post #ASzT1lbiYGJjymGeRM by mikemol@pony.social
2023-02-24T02:23:26Z
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@niconiconi I've played with it. As with all things, it depends.Most importantly, it depends on how much you're building; if you're doing daily updates, you're only rarely building enough for it to be measurable. If you're doing a `-e` build, it could make a difference. But, really, not reliably; builds can't always be parallelized.Personally, I target a load average of $cpu, but with an upper limit of less than 2x $cpu. I used to use tmpfs for builds, but beyond a certain amount of RAM, it's not as fast as NVMe or a quick raid array; the data structures that make filesystems fast can help them outperform tmpfs.What I'd *like* is something that hooks into both emerge and make and blocks spawns until conditions are right. (Those being, for me, tasks in an R state being <= $CPU, and I/O utilization being below 90%.) Maybe it's doable with LD_PRELOAD?
(DIR) Post #ASzTnNDgWl7WF5j8oy by mikemol@pony.social
2023-02-24T02:31:53Z
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@niconiconi I put my flags in both MAKEOPTS and EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS...but I really do hate that the two mechanisms don't coordinate. And then there's ninja. _Really_ thinking about that LD_PRELOAD approach, now. Maybe if I hook into fork() and exec(). (Or whatever the variations work out to under the hood).
(DIR) Post #ASzWP5y7JZXFeSYn9U by mikemol@pony.social
2023-02-24T02:42:12Z
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@niconiconi next, you'll have me fighting the halting problem, wondering if the path I'm pausing means I'm stranding CPU or I/O.(Actually, it probably doesn't matter if I'm oversubscribed on I/O, as long as the CPU stays hot, but isn't swapping or losing too much time to context switching. So exciting!)
(DIR) Post #AT2SvtamXAGeTruU6a by mikemol@pony.social
2023-02-25T13:05:46Z
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@niconiconi Does this mean we'll have more authentic bank simulator games?
(DIR) Post #AT2TIY6YaduuUzZgYa by mikemol@pony.social
2023-02-25T13:07:59Z
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@niconiconi Hm. You're right. Too early in the morning here.
(DIR) Post #ATTNX8zFaIHYi6uMQy by mikemol@pony.social
2023-03-10T12:43:56Z
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@Rasp Does not help me in the slightest. My reading pace for that slowed down to probably a third of my usual.I *suspect* that the ~autocomplete it's talking about doesn't operate on word boundaries for me, but on word tuples...three or four words at a time.I'd be curious of an approach that highlighted the most important word of each clause of each sentence...but I see it being primarily effective for technical writing, and definitely not for speech or dialog.
(DIR) Post #ATfgsQNtEEkjtUqwtc by mikemol@pony.social
2023-03-16T11:05:49Z
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@niconiconi LTT is what happens when you take a "mad scientist" approach to engineering, and apply neither good science nor good engineering.
(DIR) Post #AUNxYZKAQH2pvYGH68 by mikemol@pony.social
2023-04-06T19:49:27Z
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@simon Heh! I imagine RosettaCode.org is now obsolete, then. Makes me kinda happy; it had a good run. But I think GPT is ultimately a better model, since it doesn't require the information source pre-generate and pre-cache all the combinatorial space of task X language X library.
(DIR) Post #AV5u7e1laOx0FWs1w0 by mikemol@pony.social
2023-04-28T00:38:28Z
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@mjg59 Hm. Me and OKRs. Me and classwork.Um.
(DIR) Post #AVCYd5jxlKpSI7quTA by mikemol@pony.social
2023-05-01T05:40:41Z
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@simon Mm. Someone needs to test this with Malbolge and INTERCAL.
(DIR) Post #AX8YZX4v1YlyIaPsUi by mikemol@pony.social
2023-06-28T03:06:04Z
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@ignaloidas @niconiconi Used to be only found on, e.g. commercial grade ECC DIMMs. But I believe my non-ECC DIMMs in my current build also have them. Can't check right now.
(DIR) Post #AXVQGZnPy3HPWN69r6 by mikemol@pony.social
2023-07-09T03:46:17Z
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@mjg59 you're going to write it anyway, and I'm going to read it. Good to get a good E2E explanation going, though.Beyond a blogpost, when are you going to write an actual book that walks trust from end-to-end, answering the trust-analogous question to the interview question "you press enter after typing a URL, what happens? Can you go into more detail? More detail? More ...?"Because I feel like you've got that book in you somewhere.
(DIR) Post #AYoGxHAGrQ7HCZzvdY by mikemol@pony.social
2023-08-17T03:57:12Z
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@simon great! next up, work out how to set up a pipeline of bash-parented PIDs, with the stout of each fed to the stdin of the next, and with each subprocess automatically restarted and replumbed on any abnormal edit.Bash is scary powerful. About the only thing I couldn't do in it is use arrays without leaking memory...
(DIR) Post #AaoTfPt6DchcvTEZ96 by mikemol@pony.social
2023-10-16T02:04:49Z
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@mjg59 we in Pittsburgh identify more with the midwest. It's Philly that identifies as east-coast.You can probably get a cheap flight from Dulles to Pittsburgh, though.
(DIR) Post #AaoYVgHut5r6fK1FNQ by mikemol@pony.social
2023-10-16T02:57:43Z
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@mjg59 there is that.
(DIR) Post #Ac1MC2ROCpNoUVhlpI by mikemol@pony.social
2023-11-21T05:05:29Z
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@Wolven Project N95 was awesome and amazing, and super important when demand was hot enough that every scam artist crawled out of the woodwork to supply counterfeit products and use misleading advertising to sell other products for purposes to which they weren't suitable.I will be sad to see them go. I'll definitely keep an eye on their recommendations; I don't need disposables any more (I have a respirator with replaceable filter), but sometimes I find others who do, and I've only got a couple hundred disposables left...
(DIR) Post #Accvcuap4UgJoXQQzI by mikemol@pony.social
2023-12-09T08:05:32Z
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@mjg59 somebody explain to this man what the Overton window is. Assuming that can be explained to a solipsist.
(DIR) Post #B14xIu9Atpq6ZG13iq by mikemol@pony.social
2025-12-09T17:28:53Z
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@futurebird I mean, they can count to a degree, kinda, but what they really do here is get trained on what functions solve what problems, and then get handed a python environment they can write code into to solve the problem as they understand it.The LLM proper is only a very small piece of what comprises an "AI" now; it's more the orchestrator for specialized subcomponents and callouts.